American Airlines Wishes it Be Known Farts Did NOT Force an Emergency Landing
Source – Three American Airlines crew members from a flight to RDU complained of eye irritation and headaches from an odor described as flatulence, airport officials said.
At 3:34 p.m., a regularly scheduled American flight from Charlotte arrived at Raleigh-Durham International Airport.
Originally, it was reported passengers were affected by the odor, but CBS North Carolina has since learned only crew members complained about the smell after passengers deplaned.
RDU officials said EMS was called to Terminal 2 to check out the crew members who complained about the odor, but none was transported.
A RDU operations log shows at 3:34 p.m. the crew members “gave various descriptions of the smell (all indicating an individual had passed gas).”
At 4:18 p.m., a RDU representative told CBS North Carolina the “odor was described as flatulence,” according to the operations log.
American Airlines officials Sunday night said that a plane had an odor issue but denied it was because of “passed gas.”
Ross Feinstein, a spokesman for the airline, released a statement that said in part: “We did have an aircraft from Charlotte to RDU this afternoon, that landed at 2:19 p.m. ET, and arrived the gate at 2:21 p.m. ET, that is currently out of service for an actual mechanical issue – and odor in the cabin. But It is not due to “passed gas” as mentioned.”
What’s been a terrible year for airline public relations just continues to get worse. And once again, it’s their own fault. Because this was a golden opportunity and they squandered it.
Way to have no understanding of how to dominate the news cycle, American Airlines. What should have been the kind of positive PR all your ad dollars can’t buy is now just a garden variety “mechanical failure forces landing” story no one cares about.
But if Ross Feinstein had just kept his big trap shut, you know what it would’ve been? Iconic. Just simply clickbait for days. Positive headlines PR staffs can only dream about:
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American Airlines Will Not Tolerate Farting.
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American Draws the (Air)Line on Passenger Gas.
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American to Farters: ‘Get Off My Plane!’
But now it just sounds like a cover up. The story keeps changing. Passengers complained. The flight crew complained. EMS was summoned. The official logs mention the ass gas. But after having time to think about it, now we’ve got this spin about mechanical failures no one was concerned about when some passenger was crop dusting everybody. Management was probably worried about lawsuit from whoever sharted themselves or negative backlash from some pro-fart consumer watchdog group or whatever. So they took the coward’s way out. And now we no closer to being kept safe from these butthole terrorists. So thanks for nothing. And if any airline wants to publicly state we’ll no long be subjected to being stuck in a pressurized metal tube breathing the ass stench of others – and that they’ll force emergency landings if need be – they’ll have a loyal customer in me.